Welcome to Plantation Swim Team

Pay your Monthly Dues online here!

Complete your USA Swimming Registration here! - Updated 12/3/25

Team Info Flyer - Updated 12/3/25

Extended Absence Form

Team Withdrawl Form

Parent Handbook

List of Swimming Terms

Evaluations for new swimmers are conducted on Tuesdays, at either 3:30pm or 4:45pm. If the pool is closed for lightning, evaluations will take place on Wednesday. No need to make an appointment, all you have to do is inform the front desk that you are here for a Swim Team Evaluation. 

Plantation Swim Team is a member of USA Swimming. We are a year-round, competitive swimming program. Swimming has two seasons - Short Course Yards (SCY) and Long Course Meters (LCM) seasons. Short Course season takes place from August-April. Long course season takes place from April- August. Within each season we have different competitions, or “swim meets”. Some are more advanced which will be for our older/more experienced swimmers or swimmers who have achieved qualifying standards (times for specific events that must be met to compete in that event) designated for that meet. At the end of each season, we have our “Championship Season”. The meets during the Championship Season are the most important meets during the year and are used by both the swimmers and the coaches to determine what progress was made over the season. Championship meets will have Qualifying Standards. As the meets become more challenging the Qualifying Standard will become faster.  You can find the current time standards for our championship meets under the Time Standards tab on the website. The B/B Championship meets are listed under the USA Motivational Times.

Our youngest group (10 & Under) is the Junior Piranhas (JRP), where we introduce all the four strokes and begin to teach them the proper techniques and increase their stamina. This group is a pre/intro to competition group. We do not require competitions, but we strongly recommend them. Our coaching staff will not enter swimmers into meets that we do not feel they are ready for. We want all our swimmers to be successful.

The next group (Ages 9-12) is Age Group 3 (AG3). In this group we continue to build upon the understanding and development of the 4 strokes. We increase practice time and number of practices per week. We introduce dryland (exercises done upon land) to our swimmers. This helps them build strength that will translate into better body position and strength in the water. Practice attendance is suggested to be 3-5 times a week for this group and an increase in swim meet participation is encouraged.

Continuing our group list is Age Group 2 (AG2). This group is a wonderful group for new 12 & older swimmers, as it begins the process of understanding and development of the 4 strokes. We increase practice time and number of practices per week. We introduce dryland (exercises done upon land) to our swimmers. This helps them build strength that will translate into better body position and strength in the water. Practice attendance is suggested to be 3-5 times a week for this group and an increase in swim meet participation is encouraged. Swimmers from AG2 could go to either the Senior Group, or Age Group 1 depending on their age when they move up.

After Age Groups 2 & 3, we have Age Group 1 (AG1). In AG1, we increase swimmers’ stamina, swimming knowledge and work on improving technique and speed. Practice time is bumped up from 1 hour to 1.5 hours. We continue with dryland to increase their strength and help that translate into faster swimming. The goal for this group is to come to minimum of 5 practices a week and compete in the designated practices required by the coaching staff and compete in the championship meet each swimmer has individually qualified for at the end of the season.

Once the swimmers have completed the requirements to be promoted from AG1, they move to the Senior (SEN) group. This group is our highest level at PST. During the short course season, from August to April we offer 2 early morning workouts, 5 afternoon workouts, and 1 Saturday morning workout per week. With the increase in workouts, we also increase dryland, offering the swimmers to join Orangetheory Classes provided by the booster club. Swimmers compete in designated meets assigned based on training/competition ability and are expected to maintain the highest percentage practice attendance possible.

How to Sign up for Swim Meet:

1. Sign into www.swimpst.com, using your username and password. These can be found in the first email you received from TeamUnify.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the home page and find the meet you would like to enter.
3. Click on edit commitment.
4. Find your swimmers name and left click.
5. Drop down box, click yes.
6. Write notes if necessary (ex: my swimmer can only attend the Saturday session of meet.)
7. Save changes at bottom.

Weather/Practice Cancellations:

If there are upcoming changes to our schedule or practice cancellations, we will use the Remind app to notify our families. If we must cancel our practices with little to no notice, usually due to lightning in the area, we will use the Remind App to get that information out to families as soon as possible. As a coaching staff we rarely cancel our workouts due to lightning until at the last minute because living in South Florida our weather can change at the drop of a hat. We want to give our swimmers every opportunity to swim each day even if it is for a reduced time. We understand that some of you drive a long way, and we understand if you make the decision to not travel to Central Park if you feel the weather is poor.  If you do not receive any notification from us about pool closures, the pool is open.

Please see the office for the up to date Remind Text Group code.

Monthly Dues Billing Schedule

The Plantation Swim Team is billed per month. We want to ensure families have plenty of time to let us know if they are taking time off from swimming so bills will not be charged until the 15^th of each month. If you plan on taking time off, make sure you fill out an Extended Absence Form or Team Withdrawal Form. See below for our annual billing schedule and payment dates: